Bull Dog Beats Bad Rap - Smarter than the Average Dog

Not all situations call for the Gandhian discipline of peaceful resistance as in Lucky's case. Sometimes you just gotta run like hell.

Last year in Virginia Beach, a bulldog named "Roscoe" found himself locked up, falsely accused and facing a possible death sentence. But he wasn't licked yet.

Roscoe had gotten into a scuffle with another dog, but due to an erroneous report in the newspaper, people thought he had viciously attacked a man. 2

Roscoe took matters into his own paws and busted out of the high-security cell by opening the door, scaling a 7 ft wall, climbing over barbed wire, running 4 miles, and swimming across a lake.

Animal control agents finally caught up with him, but by that time they realized, as superintendent Wayne Gilbert says, "He was not aggressive at all."

After a re-evaluation (and a retraction of the erroneous news report), Roscoe was set free.

There's no word on whether or not he shook anyone's hand. (Do dogs have middle fingers?)
Sources:
2 "Dog being held in attack escapes"
Virginian Pilot. 06 Apr 2006